Word: herons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mark of 9:04 was set in 1965 by Alasdair Heron of Cambridge University in the Cambridge-Oxford Harvard-Yale track meet. Hardin holds the Harvard record...
Backyard Beginnings. The birder must be physically fit to slog through swamps, intellectually alert to recognize the innumerable species he might encounter, keen enough to thrill at the sight of a great blue heron overhead. But what gets him started in the first place? "We began watching birds in our backyard," explains Seismologist James Ellis. "Then we didn't recognize a bird, so we bought a cheap book. Then there were more birds, so we bought a more expensive book. It kind of grabs you after a while." It grabbed San Francisco's Raymond Higgs so hard that...
...Giovanni, and the guile of a Mephistopheles. For Rudolf Bing, it's all in a day's work. At 64, he is the undisputed lord of the manor, and he looks it. Though in physique (6 ft., 139 Ibs.) he resembles a patrician heron stuffed into herringbone, there is an impeccably correct bearing about him that says "Beware: regal and remote." His face and grey-fringed dome, all right-angle turns, are a study in parchment over steel. A Vienna-born English subject, he could easily pass as the British ambassador to Paris-a job that he wouldn...
...also liked to dine off heron, coot en cocotte, boar and sautéed squirrel ("An exquisite taste"). At times a puckish humor overcame Lautrec. His recipe for leg of lamb, for instance, required "a glacier like the Wildstrubel. Kill a young lamb from the high Alps at around 3,000 meters, during September. Cut out the leg and let it hang for three or four weeks. It should be eaten raw with horse-radish...
...name is Germaine Lefebvre, but she calls herself Capucine. "Just Capucine," she insists. "Nothing in front and nothing behind." What is true of her name is even truer of her person: she is as angular as a heron, as cold and remote as an icicle. Yet she starred in two of the '60s' biggest farces (What's New, Pussycat? and The Pink Panther). Her new comedy, Joseph Mankiewicz' Any one for Venice?, may be even bigger...